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zajio1am

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    Comment #49161765

    The replication crisis is not limited to psychology, that was just the first area where it was noted. I saw some meta-study comparing multiple social sciences and according to it r…

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    Comment #49148051

    And now the union is an organization whose sole purpose is to ensure that management cannot do anything with it (as any significant reduction of expenses means significant reductio…

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    Comment #49135962

    When we started wireless ISP in in early 200x, it was common to run 2.4 GHz links with 5+ km distance, having 24 dB antennas on each side. with the basic 17 dBm radio one was 20 dB…

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    Comment #49023664

    There are already semi-autonomous drones in Ukraine.

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    Comment #49021192

    I agree that they are fully within their rights to decide how they want to run services they provide. However, i do not think it shields such decisions from public criticism. If th…

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    Comment #49019402

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    Comment #48998619

    Civil justice is primarily about restoring damages, not about punishing wrongdoing (although common law in US it is more punitive than civil law in european countries). Therefore c…

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    Comment #48958389

    Not making the specific decision (showing ads) but making the general decision (giving power to Microsoft). Blaming customers for buying MS products is not really much different th…

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    Comment #48921162

    Also note that ASPA validation prevents only hijack by peers and customers, not by providers. Due to way how ASPA validation works, providers could always announce to their custome…

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    Comment #48921015

    Note that the first hop has to publish both ROA and ASPA records, as ASPA records describes a set of valid providers.

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    Comment #48823492

    No, it is pretty much the same, both means agreeing to a contract.

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    Comment #48764409

    It is an much simpler task now since you can depend on kernel / mesa drivers for all hardware.

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    Comment #48760405

    It is not really much different than paying for cleaning, the cleaning person also sees inside of house.

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    Comment #48618593

    At least in EU, private book/media rental is not legal without special licensing from copyright holders, while public libraries have exception for this.

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    Comment #48617281

    Tool rental is a service that is commonly provided by private sector. I do not see a reason why this should be provided by a government. This seems like unfair competition to e.g. …

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    Comment #48466833

    This is not specific to US law ...

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    Comment #48466791

    Yes, but EU would have to convince Google and Apple to get a new root certificate to browsers.

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    Comment #48429548

    > for example I invest in an ESG index for environmental, social, and governance, ie no weapons or drugs So, no weapons for Ukraine?

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    Comment #48423270

    50% property tax is just seizure without compensation, which is generally considered human rights violation. If government wants 50% of shares, it can just buy it (or expropriate i…

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    Comment #48374019

    When converting between different depths, the 255-like approach has a property that minimum maps to minimum and maximum maps to maximum.

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    Comment #48324991

    U2F token is used by one eIDAS identity provider in Czechia.

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    Comment #48294491

    > Second, many people think that the C runtime doesn't know the amount of memory allocated to an array, but this is actually false. It's just the C abstract model that for some rea…

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    Comment #48142180

    These constraints, at least for electricity, are usually in end distribution networks, not in production. High-powered datacenter would get (and pay for) its own substation/transfo…

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    Comment #48133530

    The main point of ENUM was compatibility with open SIP, unfortunately that never really happened and most SIP operators do not accept incoming calls from public internet (and do no…

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    Comment #48107697

    IMHO soldering two wires together (or wires to connectors) is much harder and requires higher dexterity than through-hole soldering on PCB, which is really easy. PCB holds parts in…